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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Anyone who truly believes that is a caveman with a God complex. The very idea that we'll someday be able to figure out absolutely everything, if we just think hard enough about it, is the highest form of egotism based on ignorance.
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Better that, surely, than the attitude "we don't understand it, so let's not even try to find out about it, but instead just attribute it to an invisible supernatural being"? As a scientist, I certainly don't claim to understand everything in the world, but it's an anathema to me to think that there are things that can't
be explained. Anything has the potential to be understood, if one does enough research to understand it. That's what the "scientific method" is all about.
I was horrified to see on the BBC news this morning that a "Creationist" museum has just opened in the USA.
Creationism???? For goodness sake - have 300 years of the "enlightenment" all been in vain?
Seeing things like that truly makes me despair for our future. Some people seem to want to go back to the days when we were living in caves, attributing everything unknown to "gods".